After a dreadful season back in the EPL and going down with a whimper, opinion is divided as to whether NCFC should retain former Accies boss Alex Neil's services. Most feel that he is the man to take us back to the promised land, however there are others myself included who feel that he is tactically naive, lacks a 'plan B' when things are going wrong and appeared totally out of his depth at Premier League level.
In his post match press conferences Alex Neil has been great at telling us where mistakes were made, only for his team to keep on making the same ones again and again. With the exceptions of Robbie Brady and Tim Klose, his player recruitment has been abysmal, Mulumbu, Dorrans, Jarvis, Bamford, with the worst signing being Naismaith from Everton who, despite an encouraging start against Liverpool when he scored on his debut, has basically done nothing since. Again opinion was split when he was signed, spending £8.5M on a 30 year old who couldn't get into the Everton starting eleven was folly in my opinon, money down the drain and unfortunately I have been proven right.
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It appears that AN will be our manager at the start of next season and I truly hope he can turn things around and get us promoted once again, however I'm not that confident especially as the Championship now includes many 'sleeping giants'.
When Alex Neil arrived at Carrow Road last year he inhertied a group of players that were under performing considerably, next term he has to overhaul an aging squad for a promotion push and I'm not convinced he has the ability to recruit what's necessary or the tactical nous to do so.
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We took a punt on a rookie manager and this time last year he was being hailed as our new messiah after our play-final victory at Wembley. Now, a few short months later, although most Canary fans appear to remain behind him many of the natives are getting restless.
Thank you for your time.
KIO